IdentityChiara is Italian, trough her origins, her family,her culture, her spirit.An Italian at heartAn international scaleArt Director and Creative Designerof prestigious cosmetic brandswith an experience of life and work inEnglandA strong attraction,The irresistible need to live there for a while.Non-conformism.FranceLove at first sight.The desire to settle there.The World of Beauty.RussiaA wonderful discovery.New opportunities.Development and exchange.

About BOIS DE ROSEwww.boisderosemantica.comIn the claim that accompanies her name there is the magical synthesis
of being and doing: Chiara Fantig, the one who weds Lipstick and Roses.

What does it means to wear on your lips the essence
of the most renowned of flowers? What does it mean to combine the rose
with the coloured lipstick holder, the outstanding element of female
sensuousness?

It means that make up of the face, the world of
colours, the beauty inherent in nature and the romantic spirit coexist
in the expertise of a rare professional, whose work is already in itself
a sublime aesthetic alchemy.

Now we can take a step back and begin at the
beginning. We can do what Heraclitus said: we’ll start from the finite
and arrive at the infinite.

Chiara was born and grew up in Italy, in the region
of the North East, between Venice and Central Europe. So she is Italian
by origin, family, heart, culture and spirit.

But when she was young she chose England and
London, the homeland of non-conformism, where she began to discover the
vastness of the creative processes.

Then it was came instant enchantment with France and Paris, where she discovered the fashion and beauty with Charlie en Particulier, Tibault Vabre, Terry, Tom Pecheux, Sonia Rykiel, Hilton Mc Connico,
Bonetti e Garouste world and built up a wide-ranging professional
career, which led to her becoming Art Director and Creative Director for
Maquillage and Cosmetic Products with international brands like Nina
Ricci, L’Occitane, Strand Cosmetiques, Fresh Look, VH Cosmetiques, Gamma
Croma. From Paris she enlarged her professional horizons and began a
close collaboration with Russia , with Faberlic: a great culture
yearning to renew the ancient splendour through the new opportunities
for development and trade.

But amid all these achievements a dream emerged
ever more insistently. Chiara is happy to talk about: “I dreamt of a
store of roses and lipsticks, I imagined it in one of those elegant
cities measurable in footsteps. I imagined a space of information and
thought that progressively reveal a style, of coincidences, of cultured
curiosity. I imagined the essential joy of presenting fine colours that
illuminate the face and seduce the mind. I wanted a space that was also a
sort of ideal manifesto of romanticism, sensuousness and beauty.”

And so it was that after 25 years of rich
metropolitan life she left Paris, where she still retains some
prestigious consultancies, and returned to her homeland to realize her
dream. In 2008 she opened a space never seen before in at Udine: ‘Bois
de Rose’, which unites her work in colour design and make-up with that
of floral decoration. In her ‘Bois de Rose’ Chiara Fantig cultivates
creative thinking, she seeks and uses colour, pure matter, pigments,
flowers, she combines tactile, olfactory and visual sensuousness.

In time Chiara also began to select and present some unique items
keyed to the themes of her world, works that were the result of items
crafted by artisans and artists, often of local in their matrix, but
naturally universal in spirit.

In 2009 and 2010, Bois de Rose was enhanced with new professional
skills and new secret splendors: an internationally renowned
photographer and an enchanted garden. The period was marked by the
official start of the collaboration between Bois de Rose and the French
artist Matthias Parillaud, sublime photographer of fashions, flowers, food and beauty, the husband of Chiara and the father of her children.

A few steps away from her premises, Chiara has reopened a beautiful
ancient garden of over 400 square meters, endowed with a
nineteenth-century orangery, which is now the new realm of make-up and
colors, as well as the living theatrical setting for small living
cultural events, ceremonies and games.

So in less than three years Bois de Rose has become a catalyst of
experience and knowledge, a concentration of lifestyle, a space of
refined and impassioned aesthetics. A place where make-up courses are
held, where the most sophisticated brides come for their maquillage and
to choose a bouquet.